Re: GOTO controversy

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From: Peter Seebach
Date: Sat, 06 Apr 1996 05:55

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In article <4k3fvg$p1o@loki.tor.hookup.net>,
Rajendra Singh <Rajendra_Singh@msn.com> wrote:
>VArase@varase.it.luc.edu (Verne Arase) wrote:

>>I avoid recursion in _any_ production code, no matter how I can minimize
>>the stack frame.

>I wholly agree.  I do the same for my production code.  It is
>especially important when you're producing mission critical
>applications!

I dunno.  I am unable to convince myself that recursion is not the best way to
do things like a merge sort.  I just make sure that I can prove it's no
more than log(n), and that it's sane.  For most of my apps, this means that
I'd run out of memory to allocate sortable objects before the stack space
would be an issue.

-s
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